Egg case filler



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SEI FILLER July l2, 1958 Patented Dect-3l, 1940 79" UNITED STA-Tesy PATENT oFFicEff;

Renfrew W. Gates', Gainesville, Fla.,lassignor to Cushion Filler Company, a corporation of Florida Application July 1.2,A 193s; serial No". 218,831

2 claims. (ol. en -26.5) a

My invention relates to egg cases and includes are related for egg containing purposes; Each among its objects and advantages the provision ller unit includes four flanges 24 which are aiof an Vimproved filler. ranged in overlappingv relation. When so arf yAn object of my invention is to provide a-filler ranged, the'flat faces 20 ofthe units Ill have'cn- 5 designed to support and protect eggs in which the tacting vrelation as at 2li. Thus the truncated filler isjso constructed as to afford eiective circones I8 cooperate with the anges 24 forholding culation of air about the nested eggs. the units I0 lin egg supporting relation.` The A further object is to provide a filler shapedA truncated cones I2 and ljare arranged to I1f` rovideIk fito provide cells for supporting and protecting apluralityof compartments 28.fo`r the reception l f enA l0""nested eggs in which the ller embodies air cirof eggs. 'I'he compartments 128 are generally 10Y culating means throughout its entire area torectangular in configuration and tapered with gether with novel means for the inlet of air into the bases of the compartments registering to dethe liller. Y fine a configuration capable of supporting eggs.

Another object is to provide a filler embodying The eggs are arranged with their major axes two complementary sheets shaped to have face vertically of the Vflat areas 22 and the chambers 15 to face relation for deiining a plurality of egg 28 have multipoint contact with the eggs. Such cells and in which the sheets are shaped in a novel multipoint Contact provides effective support for manner about their perimeter to provide air the eggs but the contacting relation between theV vents of relatively large capacity. The sheets are eggs and the truncated cones I2 and I8 is such so shaped as to provide interconnected air cirf as to provide circulation for a relatively large 20 culating passages throughout the entirearea of amount of air about the eggs. The flat faces I3 the sheets, which interconnected air passages are spaced considerably apart as at 30. Flanges havecommunication with the openings about the 24 terminate in inwardly extending faces 32 lying perimeter of the sheets. in the same line as the anges so that the faces 25 Another object is to provide a filler unit adaptof one unit I0 will have supporting relation with 25 ed to be positioned in an egg crate with the filler the faces 32 on the companion unit I0. The faces unit so designed as to facilitate the entrance of 32 comprise the tops of the semicircular trunair into the filler unit, notwithstanding the fact cated cones 34 extending along the four flanges that the filler unit might t snugly within the 24.

wall structure of the case. The l'lat faces 22 between adjoining bases of 30 In the accompanying drawing: the truncated cones I2` andll are depressed to Figure v1 is a top plan view of the filler sheet; provide recesses 38. While the fiat areas 22 of Figure 2 is a side eleva-tional View of two filler one filler unit might lie on the flat faces of an sheets arranged for nesting eggs with certain adjacent unit, the depressions 33 provide air pas- 35 parts broken away for the sake of clearness; Aand sages throughout the entire area of the adjacent 35 Figure 3 is an enlarged sectional view along the filler units. The-recesses 33 have communication line 3 3 of Figure 1. with rthe hollow truncated cones I2, the openings In the embodiment selected to illustrate my in'-V I4 of which cones, establish communication with vention, the filler III of Figure 1 is preferably the interior of the assembled unit of Figure 2.

40 molded of papier-mch and is formed to provide In Figure 1, I illustrate the unit I0 as being l0 a plurality of hollow truncated cones I2. The cut away at 4I! at each of its corners. The ditruncated cones I2 are arranged in parallel lines agonal margins or flanges 42 are depressed to lie vertically and horizontally of the filler I0 when below the adjacent anges 24 so as to provide viewed according to Figure 1. These lines are openings 44 for the circulationof air. While the 45 arranged in right-angular relation. Openings I4 perimeter of theller I0 might lit closely inside 45 are provided in the nat tops I6 of the truncated the egg case, the diagonal anges 4'2 provide air cones I2. Within the perimeter of the filler spaces extending longitudinally of the corners of IIl I provide a plurality of hollow truncated cones the ca'se, which air spaces have communication I8 which have their flat tops 20 imperforate. with the interior of the assembled units Ill of Fig- Truncated cones I2 and I8 are interconnected ure 2 through the medium of the openings 44. 50 through flat areas 22. The flat faces I 6 of the Each ller'unit I0 comprises a one piece element cones I2 terminate in a common plane lower which may be formed by molding or stamping than the plane of the nat faces 2II of the cones from brous material such as papier-mch. The i8. material is of suflicient compactness to lend the Figure 2 illustrates two Iiller units I0 as they necessary strength to the element in addition to 55' the egg more accessible for consummating an eff. l fective grasp thereon. This feature facilitates placement as well as removal of the eggsy Without further elaboration, the foregoing will so fully illustrate my invention, that others may f by applying current 'knowledge readily adapt the same for use under various conditions of service. t I claim: 'i 1. In an egg case: a filler fashioned to prov-idea .plurality of rst and second hollow, truncatedy cones spaced to provide egg chambers 'therebe tween, with each chamber having multipoint co'n-I tact with an egg positioned therein.; said secondA cones being shorter than the irstV cones andthe latter having theirv apices terminatingin"av com mon plane; said rst and second.v cones having their bases lying'in a common plane and pro-2 jecting in the same direction; said filler; having'` a supporting fiange about its .perimeter lying in a plane common to the apices of said rst cones; the tops of the second cones being provided with openings; said ller, when positioned on another such ller with respect to which it is inverted, has its supporting iiange and its rs't cones resting on the same ange and the rst cones respectively of the other filler, with the openings in the second cones -of the iillers vertically aligned; the llerhaving openings in its perimeter so that air may circulate freely into the spaces between the fillers, through the egg cells formed by cooperatingzchambers and upwardly in Vertical columns through the aligned openings inthe second cones.

` 2. 'In' an egg case: a ller fashioned to provide Vafplurality of rstwand second hollow, truncated cones spaced :to provide egg chambers therebetween, with each chamber having multipoint con- .tact withan-egg positioned therein; said second cones" being shorterthan said first cones, to facilitate placing and removing of eggs; said rst andsecond cones projecting in the same direction; saidV viiller'having supporting ange means about its perimeter lying in a plane common to the apices of said rstcones; said filler, when positioned on another such ller with respect to which it is inverted;A having its supporting flange means and its first cones resting on the same flange and the first cones respectively of the other filler.

RENFREW W. GATES. 

